Two boxes of iPads worth some $5,000 were ripped off from UPS drivers delivering them to the Upper West Side Apple store in separate robberies, authorities said yesterday.

The first heist took place at 9:55 a.m. Tuesday when a man walked up and grabbed a box with five of the gizmos from the a truck parked in front of the store on Broadway at West 66th Street.

On Thursday, at the same time of the day, someone asked the deliveryman for directions as another man swiped a box and fled on Broadway.